[crossfire] Re: Lalo's Bigworld pupland :D
Miguel Ghobangieno
mikeeusaa at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 6 21:33:23 CST 2006
I have no problem with the world expanding and
antartica moving down more, however I like the 45
degree poles. I would like to keep that.
--- Lalo Martins <lalo.martins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/06, Miguel Ghobangieno <mikeeusaa at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The point of the poles has been established in the
> > code, I think the code speaks more loudly then any
> > musings that may have happened.
>
>
> The code, however, is incomplete, and it says so
> both on the source and the
> documentation. And it's based on an incorrect
> assumption, that needs to be
> fixed.
>
> It would be rather considerate of you if you did not
> > muck up where the poles are (45 degrees) as other
> maps
> > (esp maps I have made) take into account where the
> > weather is).
>
>
> I'm sorry, but the maps are wrong to take that into
> account, when the code
> clearly says it's incomplete.
>
> I for one do appreciate your effort. But we can't
> keep broken code around
> just because fixing it would mean you don't have to
> update your maps. If
> you really want to contribute, that means adding new
> things, but
> occasionally it also means modifying your existing
> things to cope with
> improvements to the game - that's what is called
> "maintaining".
>
> Moving the Antarctic would probably make it a better
> map - further away from
> the inhabited continent, where it makes sense,
> specially when ships are
> introduced and you can sail the ocean. You'd even
> be able to make it
> bigger. Heck, make a whole small continent, why
> not?
>
> best,
> Lalo
> Martins
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